so who exactly is republican congressman scott perry? a little known pennsylvania congressman who publicly parroted claims of election fraud. >> we want the ballots and votes that are counted to be league. >> reporter: was privately helping donald trump's efforts to overturn the election. scott perry has acknowledged he introduced trump to jeffrey clark, an environmental law chief at the justice department. he worked with the white house to push baseless fraud claims and attempted a leadership coup to oust jeffrey rosen and take the job himself. according to documents and testimony from former justice department officials. perry had a friendly relationship with trump. >> a wonderful man who represents this area, scott perry. >> reporter: it's unclear how he knew clark, but the three men were united in their embrace of election conspiracies. >> i don't understand if there's criminal activity present fraud, that's criminal activity. why we don't look at that. >> reporter: in a bachtch of e-mails, perry passes along documents that allege th

congressman scott perry connected trump with jeffrey clark, an environmental law chief at the justiceped push baseless fraud conspiracies and even attempted a leadership coup at the justice department according to documents and testimony from former justice department officials. perry had a friendly relationship with trump. >> a wonderful man who represents this area, scott perry. >> it's unclear how he knew clark, but the three men were united in the embrace of election conspiracies. >> i don't understand if there's criminal activity present, fraud, that's criminal activity, why we don't look at that. in a batch of e-mails perry passes along documents to the justice department that allege there were more votes counted than voters who voted in pennsylvania, a claim that's been debunked. that same day trump mentioned perry's name in a call with justice department officials and later in the call trumps instructs justice officials to say the election was corrupt and leave the troest me and the republican congressman. perry a member of the house freedom caucus has objected to the certific

elizabeth: joining us now, house foreign affairs member, he is congressman scott perry.ountry. congressman, al qaeda on social media mocking the biden administration's botched withdrawal from afghanistan using the hashtag the year of running away? your thought about that? >> look we're obviously not in kansas anymore. you have an american president censored by american media companies. meanwhile you have islamofascist propaganda openly allowed on these very same platforms. all the while we have a president who doesn't have the heart, the courage or, you know anything else to deal with this issue and, it lets us all know where big tech is, right? and it also by their action lets us know where our leadership is and what's important to them. you got big tech censoring and having censored many conservatives across the board including the last president of the united states. and of course you've spot the biden administration 10 to 15,000 americans told to shelter in place in a combat zone. now, can't get to the airport because all of the entries are controlled by the -- [inau

scott perry.re's an intersection between the list and the folks that luke broadwater has written about having public comments and associations with white nationalists and extremist groups. i wonder where you think this process is and what you think the records revealed and what sort of fight you see ahead for this select committee. >> well, also on that list is representative jordan and other members that i serve with on the judiciary committee. you noticed just recently representative jordan is very glib and speaks with ease when he is talking about dishonest things, when he is lying, it comes to him with ease. you notice how he stammered when he was asked about whether or not he had spoken with the president on january 6th? he couldn't come out with a straight line. so what is good is that this select committee that is populated by such extraordinary members of congress, so unlike mr. cawthorn and the others that you are talking about, they will get the records. they will see who was complicit i

with that, i will turn it back over to scott perry. >> we have the freedom caucus speaking on behalf of callous americans that know places like this left them behind. me and my colleagues are happy to take your russians. -- questions. >> why do we have nancy pelosi trying to push a multi-trillion dollar spending bill, chuck schumer dancing on stephen colbert, while americans are behind enemy lines? what is the disconnect? >> the disconnect is the democrats unfortunately -- i will tell you i think the democrat party i grew up around, friends i go to church with, it does not exist anymore. the name the democrat -- they keep using the name the democrat party for credibility. they don't really care what the american people think. they know what is better. that is what this is about. this government exists to secure the rights of americans, not to tell them what to do. but that is what is happening. that is the long and short of it. it is unfortunate but it is reality. >> a couple people mentioned china relations. i want someone to clarify, are you referring to the budget reconciliation o

. >> scott perry from pennsylvania. rep. perry: morning, everybody, or good afternoon, whatever it is right now. the freedom caucus among other things wants to speak on behalf of all americans who are at home and watching this and feel helpless and hopeless to affect what is making them furious, with what is making them angry, with what is breaking their hearts. the freedom caucus exists and is here today to not only be the voice, but to call for action. conscious words, but do something -- not just words, but do something about it, which is accountability. that is what i am here to support today. my good friend mr. higgins from louisiana, it is action that counts. my good friend mr. harris from maryland, it is action that counts. these people need to resign, they need to be impeached, and i want to add one thing -- i am calling on leader mccarthy, i'm calling on him to vacate, make the motion to vacate the chair. speaker pelosi is derelict in her duties. this government exists to preserve the rights of the american people.

records records of colorado, jim borden, -- marjorie taylor greene, jody hice, scott perry, and usualhat do you think about that request. what's legal status, it's going to have, in how much of a fight is that going to be? >> there is a larger question here, because the legal issue, that's unresolved chris, is whether a committee like this can subpoena a number of congress. for testimony. in these records are little bit different from testimony itself. but certainly we should expect to see, these members try to delay the committees process. by challenging in court whether there is some sort of extended speech or debate clause protection for these records. spoiler alert, i don't think that there is. i think the law is pretty well established, that not everything that a member of congress does is done in their official speech and debate clause capacity. and we have this interesting take from doj, in the civil lawsuit, filed against mo birx and the former president and others. where doj talks about conduct, that is outside the official function. because it is affixed electioneering, one

republican congressman scott perry has now acknowledged he connected trump with jeffrey clark, an environmentalent. clark back channelled with the white house to help push baseless fraud conspiracies and even attempted a leadership coup at the justice department according to documents and testimony from former justice department officials. cnn's senior legal analyst and former federal and prosecutor elie honig joins me to answer your legal questions. he's also the art of "hatchet man, how bill barr broke the justice code and corrupted the justice department." elie, one viewer asks what are the potential legal ramifications for trump and others who tried to use the justice department to overturn the election. sure lowly there must be some l ramifications. >> it's clear there was a coup attempt by jeffrey clark and beyond by donald trump and others. when it comes to actual consequences, they have been yen sufficient so far. we've got congress doing an inquiry, doing a good job and uncovering a lot of facts but that's realistically all congress could do. theoretically they could impeach but they'r

tonight joey jones, senator marsha blackburn, former obama advisor brett brewin, mike huckabee, scott perrydwight murdoch and ken paxton, we will show you graphic images viewer discretion of the taliban tracked down. the taliban actively seizing people's passports reports they also seized u.s. aircraft. plus pushback against the biden team including the government watchdog data shows the president and his team inflated afghan troops by almost double in order to defend bidens eggs out of afghanistan and the insiders talk openly under president obama, border chaos and rising gas prices and inflation. in the stocks dropped again as they said they would stop by government debt. there is hope we have to end for separate incidents getting shots fired at them across-the-board from mexico we have the story, former president trump is weighing in on everything we have to show you what he has to say, big tech double standards are helping the taliban while censoring conservatives here al-qaeda mocking president by don't on social media # trendlines al-qaeda is putting up. retaking of the great number o

members of trump's sedition caucus, like andy biggs, boebert, goh saturday, marjorie taylor greene, scott perry. so don't buy the mock outrage over biden's botched withdrawal from this crew. last month they weren't even willing to offer assistance to the afghans who helped us. and arizona's andy biggs was pressuring biden from a complete withdrawal back in february. biggs' insistence, quote, afghan is need to be responsible for their own destiny going forward. doesn't seem to apply when joe biden backed it. the gop tried to ignore trump's backed withdrawal plan despite post 9/11 consensus. they dropped those principles for political gain. they can't pick them up to use as a political weapon. in case anyone is daemted to buy into the b.s., trump bragged about the withdrawal less than two months ago. >> i started the process. all the troops are coming back home. they couldn't stop the press. 21 years is enough, don't we think? 21 years. yeah, thank you. thank you. >> he added that the only way the afghan government lasts is if we're there. and that's your reality check. "new day" continues right

joining me now, pennsylvania republican congressman scott perry, member of the foreign affairs committeee you this evening. some republicans are saying that president biden should resign over this debacle. we know he certainly won't, but we do know that the events in afghanistan will indeed, no doubt, form this administration's leg i city, and you wonder what that will be as we watched the events unfold, yesterday's attack, the terror attack that killed 13 service members was the worst in a decade. >> well, listen, joe biden has never failed to fail. he has failed to listen, he has failed to learn, and he has failed to lead, and his legacy will be one of failure. unfortunately, 13 brave souls lost their lives yesterday because of his poor judgment, and the fact that the democrat leadership refuses to comment on this, this is our country at stake here. this is the, this is lives of service members, you know, that are impacted. they're gone. the lives of -- they're gone and their families' lives have been forever changed. and, of course, speaker pelosi and the leadership in the democrats i

here now, republican congressman scott perry from pennsylvania, member of the house foreign affairs committeeressman, good to see you. i want to talk about the president's comments today was we know the -- because we know the situation is chaos. he was flanked today by vp kamala harris, secretary of state antony blinken, he came out 49 minutes late suggesting maybe there was some concern about what the messaging was going to be or some disagreement. he also said things that were just factually inaccurate. let's start with those prepared remarks. he said that we have eradicated al-qaeda from afghanistan. intelligence suggests otherwise. your thoughts. >> well, look, the one thing we can count on in joe biden, president or not, is he has never failed to fail x. since he's failed to listen, he has failed to learn, and now he is failing to lead. the intelligence community told him, at least some in the intelligence community, that this was going to happen. and to suggest that al-qaeda's not present, i'll remind everybody in america that they were or present in the prisons in bagram that were empt

we know he was put in touch with the president by representative scott perry of pennsylvania and others. nobodies in the justice department understood what those conversations were about, didn't know they were happening until the end of december when jeff clark started to approach the acting attorney general, the acting deputy attorney general and others asking what the justice department could do to publicly declare the results of the election invalid. this was a shock to his colleagues. they felt they had remember vetted these claims. they were on every front pushing back against white house efforts to get them to make these public statements. and unbeknownst to them somebody in their own ranks can be quietly speaking to the president about doing society. it led to a series of confrontations at the end of the year. then it led to jeff rosen being informed he could lose his job, that the president was thinking about replacing him with jeff clark, something we now know from notes that richard donahue took had been on the president's mind for days before january 3rd when there was a show

records are of lauren boebert of colorado, jim jordan, madison cawthorn, matt gaetz, louie gohmert, scott perryhe usual suspects there. what -- what do you think about that -- that request? what -- what legal status is -- is it gonna have? how much of a fight is that going to be? >> there is a larger question here because the legal issue that's unresolved, chris, is whether a committee like this can subpoena a member of congress for testimony. >> right. >> and these records are a little bit different from testimony, itself. but certainly, we should expect to see these members try to delay the committee's process by challenging in court whether there's some sort of extended speech or debate clause protection for these records. um, spoil alert. i don't think that there is. i think the law is pretty well established that not everything that a member of congress does is done in their official speech and debate clause capacity. and we have got this interesting take from doj in the civil lawsuit filed against mo brooks and the former president and others where doj talks about conduct that is outside

records of several republican members, including lauren bober, taylor greene, jim jordan, matt gates, scott perry yes olive home played some role in promoting or furthering the aims of the rally that preceded the attack on the capitol that day. it is really something though for investigating committee to obtain phone records from a former president, from a former president's family, and from serving members of congress. joining us now to help us understand the ambition of this request, and why this is necessary, it's a member of the house select committee on january six. congressman ellen laura from the great state of virginia. congressman, it's a real pleasure to have you tonight. thank you. >> thank. >> you do agree that this is a remarkable request. i feel i've covered a lot of congressional investigations -- i don't know if it's exactly unprecedented, but it does feel like a big deal? >> rachel, this committee is tasked, fully discovering an understanding everything that happened on january six and everything that led up to january six unprecedented attack on our democracy. the committee is u

members of trump's sedition caucus, like andy biggs, boebert, goh saturday, marjorie taylor greene, scott perryden's botched withdrawal from this crew. last month they weren't even willing to offer assistance to the afghans who helped us. and arizona's andy biggs was

detail some of those interactions between clark and republican congressman scott perty out of pennsylvania. we know that perryut no comments from the congressman. in the meantime senator durbin announced the next witness will be vijay poc who resigned right after that phone call was announced. he could offer some details about why he resigned so abruptly and maybe even if he was pressured. >> lots going on right now. we know a lot, but we will know a lot, lot more. >> we will. >> jessica, thank you very much. let's discuss this more with senator chris kuntz of delaware. senator, thanks so much for joining us. based on the testimony before your committee so far, do you see potential evidence of a crime? >> well, it is an ongoing investigation, wolf, so i'm not going to leap to conclusions just yet, but this is deeply troubling. further detailed evidence of president trump's direct involvement in trying to muscle the doj and its acting senior leadership in the very waning days of his administration to take acts that would have violated their oaths, to take steps that frankly would have allowed him to overturn t

perry to, there's a to i listen shows just great, obviously. but there's a company guys you could tell. they said we've got to kill scott here. could we go to? and those 2 were just don't matter. they were not think of doors they were, i'm out of doors. listen so many people are in erotic about confronting their muse . i'm. i'm sure that you can write it yourself. i always found any time to write something in life. if i knew did it of the magic sword from the stone thing and said listen, you've got to work opportunity here. it goes away at this time. if you don't sit and start hitting the keys or the writing on the legal pad, i always try that rating for me. what's your process? how do you, can i completely agree? i think, you know, kind of calling yourself or right or the price or the right. it's mostly for the psychological barriers. anything if you, if you can just allow yourself to just talk to just type and it doesn't matter if it's not good in the 1st instance because at least you got something to make better, i guess. and so, yeah, i right, you know, i, we, we come up with episode outlined, quite detailed and usually kind of get appro